We're never going to know what the 10 best video games of all time are. But we sure can try.

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Since early 2010, my friend N'Gai Croal and I have been trying in the most semi-serious, pseudo-scientific way possible to deduce the 10 top games ever. Our way is surely the best.

On Friday, in Boston, we'll update the world on our progress and allow our list to be changed yet again. We started this project, which we call Canon Fodder, one year ago.

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We started with as flawed but neutral a list as we could find, the GameRankings.com list of the 10 best-reviewed video games of all time (who knew Metal Gear Solid on the Game Boy Color was so damn good?)

Then we went to the professionals, allowing game developers — and no one else — to each make a single change to our list. They could remove a game and put a new one in its place. They could swap the position of any two games on the list.

Over the course of our first two "seasons," we lost Zelda. We lost Metroid (two of them!). We lost Metal Gear. Only Super Mario World survived! And, hey, we gained DDR, despite the hissing and booing of the PAX crowd. (Read about that second round of moves, if your blood pressure is under control.)

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Tomorrow, at PAX East, our Canon Fodder list will change yet again. N'Gai and I have spent recent weeks getting another 10 game developers to each make one change to the list. They've done that and made their moves, each of which will be presented for public praise and scorn at PAX East tomorrow during our Canon Fodder, Season 3 panel. We'll also have three game developers on the panel with us. Those brave men will make their moves live, possibly with the help of our live audience.